This Month in Review | March 2017

I hope you are all doing well, that you are happy and surrounded with love.

Many of you know that I lost a dear friend this past week. I have been blessed by such kind words and thoughts from you all and I thank you profoundly for all of it. You cannot know how deeply grateful I am for your support and love! May you never doubt that I am here for you, that I am thinking about you, and wishing you all the best.

With what’s gone on, I’ve drawn back from social media but I’ll be making a steady return this week because I miss interacting with you. And because closing myself off won’t help me grieve any more.

So here is a look at what I have been up to in March and what I will be up to in April.

GOALS OF MARCH

Read 4-5 books.

Read 1 nonfiction

Watch 5 movies (I’m upping the challenge this month)

Polish draft of Heritage(my 2015 NaNoWriMo which is currently entered in #PitchMadness and I’m just making sure she’s absolutely ready for agents round — in case I make it to that round)

Polish draft of The Glass Slippers (there are quite a few script competitions coming up and I really want to have this Cinderella adaptation ready to circulate!)

Finish first draft of Heralding (if I crank out about 15k a week, I should be there – it’ll put her above 80k and right now that seems like a good length for a first draft)

Practice the violin – I’m serious about this one this month and I’ve set time for practice!

Start final edits on Pirate Eyes – because she needs to be in at least an agent’s hand before this year is done!

ACHIEVED IN MARCH

Read 2 nonfiction books – What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dicken Knewwas a brilliant book that covered the time period with quirky language. And Writing Young Adult Fiction which reads as an excellent starter’s guide, but failed to add anything for me.

Watched 8 movies – This included three version of Beauty and the Beast (a highlight was the original 1940s black & white version directed by Jean Cocteau).

I am just a few chapters away from a good polish of Heritage. It should be done by the end of this weekend.

I didn’t touch The Glass Slippers, but I did write a short story that I’m really proud of and have plans to expand it into a novella.

I finished the first draft of Heraldingtwo days ago. In the wake of the tragic news, I withdrew to my books & writing for solace and poured a lot of myself into her. She’s complete now at 78, 721 words after writing 55,587 words this month.

Didn’t touch the violin at all despite best intentions. Oh well…

I didn’t touch Pirate Eyeseither, but she’s printed and ready for April. Which leads me to…

APRIL GOALS

Of which there are many…

Final Edit of Pirate Eyes – I want her in the hands of beta readers by the end of the month.

Finish Edit of Heritage – And have her in beta readers hands before April 15th

Submit Walking Blind (a thriller script) to competitions – a few years back I made it into the quarter finals with this script and I hope that she’ll go further this year.

Read 4-5 books: this list includes some of my most anticipated releases this year: A Shining in the Shadows by Beverley Lee, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas & Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman.

Watch 4 movies: Hopefully this will include Logan.

Outline a few stories – I have five new ones that I’m especially inspired by and want to use this relatively quiet month to tackle them.

Post 2 entries of Crafting the Series – you might remember that I had started to post on my experiences writing Eléonore and I’ve let that slip away from me, but I’m intent on continuing it. Sorry for the slowness.

Participate in #WIPjoy on Twitter and #danaf7wordstory & #shayverlee6wordstory on Instagram

Create a month of prompts for May. I have a few ideas running around for the successor to #FictFBFeb17 that I hosted on Twitter. Hopefully I can make it as much fun as the last.

Well, that was more than I expected to write. Again, I am wishing you all so much happiness and love! Stay well, friends, be kind to one another and to yourself.

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6 thoughts on “This Month in Review | March 2017”

Once again, I am sorry for your loss Faith. I wish you a wonderful month ahead. All the best with your goals. I like how you have different ones including watching movies. I haven’t watched one in months but I hope to do so soon.

And woooah those look like amazing goals! And so much writing happening…*bows to you* I honestly never multitask writing projects haha but I really need to start editing at some point soon. SOON. I tell myself this every month.😉 Best of luck and I hope you get to watch Logan! It looks so so good.

I’m in awe of you, Faith ❤ I hope all your editing/writing goals go well and you achieve all of these amazing goals! If you have any energy to spare, feel free to send me some 😛 I wish I could work on more than one WIP at the same time.
No need to apologise, you've had a busy few weeks. Just get back to things whenever you're ready.